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Show iEGRESS SENT TOIL FOB II PERIOD OF THIRTY DAYS Mrs. P. T. Reeves, a negress, was found guilty of vagrancy this morning In the municipal court and was given giv-en the alternative of paying a $30 fine or of serving 30 days in jail. Sho was arreBted last night by Patrolman Wooten at the Ark, a negro rooming house on "Wall avenue. Frank Ward, John Clark, William Hammer, Jack Barney, George Brown-ey, Brown-ey, James Dolan and Charles Ren-shaw, Ren-shaw, plain drunks', were given suspended sus-pended sentences. Robert Scott who completed a five-day sentence on Monday, Mon-day, was sentenced to serve twice that number for getting drunk again. James Kennedy, who also came back, was given a fifteen-day sentence, He finished a ten-day sentence on Monday. Mon-day. In passing judgment on Scott and Kennedy, the judge stated that his policy wns to give minor offenders offend-ers a chance after their first offense if there were no aggravating circumstances, circum-stances, five days or the second offense of-fense and to double the sentence thereater, Jamea Moran pleaded not guilty to a charge of drunkenness and had his trial set for tomorrow morning. The case of the City vs. ' James O'Brien was taken under advisement. The defendant was arrested last night by Patrolman Wooten on a charge of drunkenness, but, according to witnesses, wit-nesses, he had assaulted a fellow transient tran-sient prior to his arrest A. D Crowe, arrested yesterday by C-fficor Reast, was fined $3 after pleading guilty to riding a bicycle on the sidewalk. " |